I interviewed at a startup decades ago and talked with the CEO for about an hour. I asked questions about their customers, their competitors, their investors, and the technical challenges he thought his company had. I didn't ask for hard numbers ("How much money do you have in the bank?")

Feedback from my hiring manager was that the CEO was very impressed.

(This is the same place that later "extinguished" my paid-for stock options after I left, and is now a multi-billion dollar company. To hell with them).